Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-07-15

able conditions, both as to rate OF fare and
limit of tickets. The first of the series is
fixed for July 14th, and will embrace, as Will
the three others, Atlantic City, Cape May,
and Sea Isle City. Others of the series will
occur on July 2Sth, August 11th aud 18th.
These resorts are the choicest and by far the
the most popular OF any of the summerinS
points on the Jersey Coast, and it will prove
a difficult matter to make choice between
the three.
The tickets viii be good for ten days, and
ill be sold at the rates quoted below from
the points mentioned
Rate. Train leaves
PIttSourg ......... ........SlO w o-oJ An
Butler. ~ W. VI
Philadelphia ...-.......-.ArriVe ''oU M
The excursionists will spend the night in
Phiadephia and proceed TO the seashore by
anv regular train of the next day. These
are magnificent holiday trips and should be
taken advantage of by all who can spare the
time for most enjoyable outing.
Clarendon. Warren county, the principal
town of the Sheffield Oil district, was almost
entirely DESTROYED by fire On the night OF the
4th. The FIRE started in q hotel, and is sup
posed to have been the work of the drunken
proprietor. who had threatened to burn the
town if refused license. He was caught IN
the woods next day, and put in Jail at War
len. The town was mostly built OF frame,
had q small supply of water, and very little
insurance owing TO the high rates. Chas. I.
McCandless, son of w. ID. McCaudless,
formerly of Centre twp, had drug store
there worth about S2500. He and his family
got away with their lives, and 30 cents,
Will Kearns, son of Mr.. Patton kearns,
deed lives at North Clarendon across the
river, and escaped injury. The town had a
large pump station, and some oil tanks with
in its limits, and when the oil tanas took
fire. the people fed for their lives to the
neiehborinr hills. The tanks exploded, the
burning oil ran through the streets and moth
ing further could be done. But one person,
is supposed to have perished, and his remains
were found in the ruins of the Warren Hotel,
next day. In the list of losers, we notice the
name, of K. Campbell, hotel keeper, ana
man of that name, formerly kept hotei al
Phillips City. A forest fire spread to the su.
burbs of the town next day and completed
the destruction. About 800 houses were
burned and the total loss will reach nearly
half million.
Mr.. w. II. Self, the energetic manager
of the Times of Pittsburgh, was IN town on
business, Tuesday.
Prof. Grove has declined the
principalship of the Greenville schools.
The stores will continue to close
at pm. until September lst.
The family of Mr.. Charles Lusk,
of Texas, are visiting at DR.. Lusk's.
Since the lst inst, Eastern
Standard or 18th Meridian, has been
legal time.
-Betweee so and 60 separate
buildings are now being erected IN
Butler.
The new scalp law repeals
everything excepting the bounty on
wolves and wild cats.
old man HARRISON escaped from
Dixmont ON the Cd inst. and walked
to Karns City. Sheriff Kramer cap
tured him Wednesday, and took him
back.
The bill to remove the disabilities
of Esq, John Smith, of Cherry town
ship,is said to have been quietly vetoed
by Gov. Beaver, on the I'd of June
last.
The P & w r r laid track
across Mill street, Youngstown, last
Tuesday night, and on Wednesday a
mob of citizens tore it up.
Druggist Charles McCandless,
one of the losers by the Clarendon
fire, said II have only half dollar
in the world. My wife went to the
safe just before the fire and left the
door open, and all of the valuables
l had were destroyed"
Five deaths occurred at Harmony
and Zelienople last Saturday. Mr.
William Bastian, aged about IS years
dropped dead suddenly. that morning
while dressing Mrs. Wiehl, mother
of Sid Wiehl, who has been blind fol
twenty years and who was nearly
one hundred years of age, died tina
day Andrew May. of Third street
Pittsburgh, freight brakeman OF
the P. & w. Railroad, who wa
struck by the bridge in Harmony
, died an hour afterward at the Bean
House child of Isaac Wise, o
Zelienople, aged 8 years, died tina
day and also an infant child Of How
ard Bentel, Harmony.
Two delicate surgical operation
have lately been performed upor
: Butler men. Newton Black, Esq
has been troubled with an intens'
. pain back of his left ear for SOM
time. This was caused by bealinl
in the ear, and on Monday of thi
o week be had hole bored throug
his skull back of the ear, througl
which matter escaped, thus ending
the pain but he will not be well 70
. three months. Mr.. l.. S. McJunki
has been suffering from intense head
D ache for months. This was cause
0 by false growth in the membrane
n of the nose, part of which Loyal ha
had cut out, and the balance is to b
p treated likewise-a very painful or
n GRAFTON.
v AT the meeting of the Schot
p Board of Butler, on the lst inst
p Miss Cummings was elected Prime
p pal of the Mexican street school, an
a a Prof. A. B. Anderson, of Freepor
a Mr.. H. E. Coulter, of Alleghen
"a township, who is reading law wit
p Mitchell, Miss Lima Snyder, Mr.. c
p K. Balpb, Misses Jennie Crlswel
P Bella Colbert, Sadie Cochran, Allie
= Diellenbacher, Rosa Kelly, Dir. A
y bert King, Misses Emma Limbert
a Ella Purvis, Emily u. Britain, Ell
g Coulter, Nary Emrick, Anna Graham
p Emma A. Rowe, Maggie Rodger
p Carrie White and Anna Welshonc
"a "a teachers. There were forty-two a.
"a plicants. the twenty-one selecte
"a were all elected on first ballot, wit
Y the exception OF two. Hiss E. y
"a Britain was selected as the Assistal
p Principal of the Jefferson stree
r school.